eBay acquires the sneaker authentication business from partner Sneaker Con Digital
www.techcrunch.com Online marketplace eBay is further investing in its sneaker business with today’s news that it’s
Thought Machine closes $200M for its cloud native banking SaaS and becomes a unicorn
www.techcrunch.com Thought Machine, a 2014 (Xoogler) founded startup that sells cloud-based b2b banking services, has closed
Co-working and EdTech company Talent Garden acquires Hyper Island to scale online courses globally
www.techcrunch.com Talent Garden is a sort of ‘European-WeWork-meets-General-Assembly’ in that its business model is a combination
Robotics startup FJDynamics raises $70M to make manual labor easier
www.techcrunch.com FJDynamics, founded by DJI’s former chief scientist Wu Di, just closed a Series B round
Second-hand car auction platform Motorway hits Unicorn status after $190M raise with Index, ICONIQ
www.techcrunch.com It was only in June that Motorway – a U.K. platform on which professional car
India’s Slice becomes unicorn with $220M funding from Tiger Global, Insight Partners and Advent
www.techcrunch.com Rajan Bajaj, founder of fintech Slice, chimed in on a Twitter thread earlier this year
VC has a pivotal role to play in the climate fight, but it can’t do everything
www.techcrunch.com The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and
Investors: Up your ante at the iMerit ML DataOps Summit 2021
www.techcrunch.com The “oil bidness,” as they say in Texas, is so 20th century. Data, artificial intelligence
Fractions aren’t enough of an answer to divisions
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